Apache Ant VS Gradle

3) Recomendo realizar o download do JDK 7 ou superior, Apache Ant e Open SSL;

make has many detractors, but I've shipped some fairly large projects using nothing but it as the build system. Once you've settled on a particular implementation of make, you can get a lot done with it. The pain comes in when you want to do even modestly interesting things and you need it to work on both GNU make and SysV (or BSD) make. Its syntax also speaks loudly as to the era which it's from, but the same could be (unfavorably) said of things like Visual Studio project files and Ant.

Has anyone thought about a scalable distributed build setup for android? Would love to hear success stories, if any. The closest I’ve come in my search is this closed issue

I want to say "we can do better," but really, we can't. The best we can do at present is mitigate by internalizing the following rules.

but they seem to be broken for the case we'd need because of a Gradle bug that still isn't fixed :( https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/9050

I moved all my plugins (5 or so) into this script, I know what they all do. I found a bug on gradle’s github that outlines this error https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/19247 that other comment on it doesn’t seem applicable

Now let's dive into a basic example on how to create a custom annotation to retry a method on a given exception using AspectJ. I'm here assuming that you know how to install and create a Gradle project. If not, Gradle has really good documentation on how to get started. click here

Support for a build tool such as Maven or Gradle (unless you are command-line junkie).

May I ask why you are attempting to do this by hand when things like Maven and Gradle exist?

From a build perspective, Maven and Gradle are simple and mature and will cover any use-case you can really imagine. The plugin ecosystems are really hard to beat even if they're not the new kids on the block anymore.